burgess who is a doctor. welcome. >> take you for having me on. mike: how are things in your district in north texas following the power outage, extreme weather across texas this week? >> there is a lot of people who are hurting the temperature is back up and texas will be 70 - 80 degrees by the middle of the week. water supply is a big issue, a lot of pipes froze, this was hard getting word out that people need to consider turning their water off at their apartment or their house. and it was a consequence of a tremendous amount of damage from that and then water damage so those will be uninsured losses that will be helped by the disaster declaration of the delegation we are pushing to extend that from 77 counties to 254 counties in the state of texas because it was literally a statewide disaster. mike: for folks watching, is it best advice to boil water just to make sure the water is good to go? >> the water districts are issuing those orders so it depends upon where you are, the problem is when the pressure dropped from all of the pipes bursting in t

mike: congressman burgess owens. >> i would ask congresswoman jackson lee, instead of showing somethingred years ago show a picture of my dad, great men and women, grew up in the depression under true segregation. mike: your thoughts on his comments and the reparation debate? >> an important conversation to have, democrats been trying to introduce this bill since 1989 and the professor makes a point, to the fact that we see such disparities in terms of healthcare. one of the most chris critical issues in terms of why we are seeing such a high rate of infection with covid-19 is not just education but healthcare and reaching these folks and being able to vaccinate these folks and the critical issue, we can have these, how to make up for the injustices of the past 200 years is an important conversation to have, the communities that are disproportionately affected. it is a critical conversation at this moment. mike: was no one knows is how committed the white house is to the specific house legislative vehicle introduced in every congress for more than 3 decades and what -- would establish a

[laughter] first i would like to introduce congressman mike burgess, admiral ronny jackson and scott s, i asked admiral jackson if it's congressman, dr., admiral. he said dr. admiral, it pulls better. here here. the power of our free-market health care system is saving the nation from covid-19. it took decades of intense human suffering to defeat polio, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella and a host of other awful diseases. because we were able to harness the power of the american health care ecosystem, we developed diagnostics, therapeutics, and now three vaccines in one year. [clapping] at warp speed to defeat covid-19. we win when we work together to unleash the power of free market innovation. we are the only nation that can do it. but our ability to continue to do so is at risk. dr. burgess, you're the senior physician in congress. bills like hr three are a direct threat to innovation, intellectual property rights in the ability for patients and doctors to make their own decisions and choices. how are we going to stop this from happening. >> it's going to be tough. you know, they

. >> mike: i want to play a clip from congressman burgess owens. >> i would ask congresswoman jacksonhing from 200 years ago, how about showing a picture of my dad? a celebration of great men and women who really went through the toughest of times, went through true segregation, the kkk, and now... >> mike: your thoughts on these comments? >> it's an important conversation to have. democrats have been trying to introduce this bill up to at least study reparations in this country since 1989. i think the professor makes a really good point, it not just in terms of access to education and frontline workers, but the fact that we so much disparities in terms of our health care. that's one of our most critical issues facing our communities in terms of finding a high rate infection of covid, not just education in economics, but health care and reaching these folks and now being able to vaccinate these folks. the critical issue, and we can have these conversations on reparations and how we make up the injustices, it's an important conversation to have. i think it's more critical conversation

mike johnson of louisiana. >> yes. >> thank you. you are yielded for five minutes. thank you so very much. >> thank you. thank you and i appreciate all the witnesses time today and also mr. burgessso understanding in for repair of current internet -- i've get intermittent internet. mr. herschel walker is not an operative to speak up here in the last part of this hearing. if you still with us. i just wanted to pitch at him and give an opportunity to see if there was anything that's been said so far the last couple of hours here that he wanted to respond to. mr. walker? >> yes. i would like to respond and want to thank ms. jackson lee. i would like to ask, does she know the year of those pictures? the reason i ask that is, whenever i get on a subject i do -- [inaudible] one of the things i looked up and asked my mom is how many african-americans was alive today that was in slavery wax which is none. psycho to some of the older depot for experience and i remember my mom mentioning how can we pay for your great, great grandfather being burned to death? or how could you pay for your great, great uncle being hung? i i understand those pictures ae horrible, but right now i think -- is